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Posted October 07, 2011
Not sure if anyone else here has installed the developer preview of windows 8 yet, but I was at build a few weeks ago, and got one of those nifty Samsung tablets, so I thought I'd give a few games a try on it. I didn't have a whole lot of luck getting games to work with touch on Win7, but I thought changes to the input stack might help things under 8. So far, not much luck though-with zero reconfiguration on anything in DosBox, here are the reults:

-Space quest 6: Installed the 4/5/6 pack, and thought I'd try 6 since it was the most recent. No video at all, but audio worked.
-Myst masterpiece: Installs, but no video.
-Planescape:Torment: Installs and runs, but stretched to 16:9. Touchscreen is actually responding as it should, so the game might actually be playable this way (with a stylus at least).

Has anyone else been crazy enough to try this out? I'll try tweaking some doxbox settings for the old Sierra stuff to see what happens.
Posted October 07, 2011
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ChrisBardon: Not sure if anyone else here has installed the developer preview of windows 8 yet, but I was at build a few weeks ago, and got one of those nifty Samsung tablets, so I thought I'd give a few games a try on it. I didn't have a whole lot of luck getting games to work with touch on Win7, but I thought changes to the input stack might help things under 8. So far, not much luck though-with zero reconfiguration on anything in DosBox, here are the reults:

-Space quest 6: Installed the 4/5/6 pack, and thought I'd try 6 since it was the most recent. No video at all, but audio worked.
-Myst masterpiece: Installs, but no video.
-Planescape:Torment: Installs and runs, but stretched to 16:9. Touchscreen is actually responding as it should, so the game might actually be playable this way (with a stylus at least).

Has anyone else been crazy enough to try this out? I'll try tweaking some doxbox settings for the old Sierra stuff to see what happens.
Another new Windows in the pipeline already?

Very annoying.

Wish they'd accumulate features and released a new rendition maybe once a decade even though it is not in their financial interest to do so.
Post edited October 07, 2011 by Magnitus
Posted October 07, 2011
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ChrisBardon: Not sure if anyone else here has installed the developer preview of windows 8 yet, but I was at build a few weeks ago, and got one of those nifty Samsung tablets, so I thought I'd give a few games a try on it. I didn't have a whole lot of luck getting games to work with touch on Win7, but I thought changes to the input stack might help things under 8. So far, not much luck though-with zero reconfiguration on anything in DosBox, here are the reults:

-Space quest 6: Installed the 4/5/6 pack, and thought I'd try 6 since it was the most recent. No video at all, but audio worked.
-Myst masterpiece: Installs, but no video.
-Planescape:Torment: Installs and runs, but stretched to 16:9. Touchscreen is actually responding as it should, so the game might actually be playable this way (with a stylus at least).

Has anyone else been crazy enough to try this out? I'll try tweaking some doxbox settings for the old Sierra stuff to see what happens.
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Magnitus: Another new Windows in the pipeline already?

Very annoying.

Wish they'd accumulate features and released a new rendition maybe once a decade even though it is not in their financial interest to do so.
People got spoiled by XP,
win 3.0 - 1990
win 3.1 - 1992
win 95 - 1995
win 98 - 1998
win 2000 - err ... yeah
win XP - 2001
win Vista - 2007
win 7 - 2009
win 8 - 2012 (?)

They're just getting back to usual...
Posted October 07, 2011
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Magnitus: Another new Windows in the pipeline already?

Very annoying.
Oh come on, MS is bound to release a new xbox which will cost them billions, where do you think they'll get the money for it from? Show some understanding, poor Ballmer needs to eat.
Posted October 07, 2011
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Fenixp: SNIP

They're just getting back to usual...
Basically yes. What pisses me off about it personally is that I don't want Windows in the first place but they make it such an incredible pain in the ass to get a laptop at a reasonable price that doesn't include it.

The problem in my view is that there's nothing that necessitates them putting a new one out that frequently other than their own pocket book and the industry as a whole suffers for it. It takes them until at least SP1 for their OSes to actually be a viable option by which point there just about already talking about the next version.
Posted October 07, 2011
Just when we figured out how to run alot of the older games, Microsoft pulls the rug out.
Posted October 07, 2011
It's no big deal. W8 has an alternative m & kb interface that looks and runs much like the conventional W7 interface. I see reason GOG games won't run in that mode.
Posted October 07, 2011
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ChrisBardon: -Planescape:Torment: Installs and runs, but stretched to 16:9. Touchscreen is actually responding as it should, so the game might actually be playable this way (with a stylus at least).
That won't be down to Windows 8, that'll be either the hardware or drivers and it'd be the same on Windows 7.
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